Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-12-03
CURRENT NEWS.

Senator Davis and wife are settled at
the capital for the winter.
Don NJ. Dickinson is said to favor gen
eral Black for the vice presidency.
Chairman Jones of the national repub-
lican committee will not resign.
Anderson, the Iowa independent con-
gresham, will probably enter the demo-
cratic caucus.
Congressman Collins, of Boston, may be
made chairman of the house iauiciary COM
mittee.
are said to be located conveniently near
to one another in Washington.
There is talk of a combination between
eastern members of the house for a redis-
tribution of the offices.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, is said to
be first choice for the Craftsmanship of
the committee on ways and means.
There is still much speculation over
Sparks successor. General Bryant's
chances are apparently not so good as re-
ported.
The government will investigate the
report that the Northern Pacific has Sc
cured control of all the hotels in the yell
lowstone Park.
were married recently.
The hose and hook and ladder compan-
les of Lake CITY have disbanded owing to
a quarrel with the city government. The
taxpayers are said to be in favor of a paid
fire department.
Fred F. Bickell, the Duluth bank rob-
Der, waived examination and will be tried
at the next term of the United States dis
trict court at Winona.
Another vein of iron ore has been found
at the Granite Polishing Company's works
three miles west of Saint Cloud, Mime
sofa.
The Brainerd Dam company has grant
ed the city a perpetual franchise of 200
horse power.
W. B. Wilcoxson is to publish and edit
a new democratic paper at Waseca, Min
nesota.
The postal revenue for the last tis-
cal year was $4S, 1928.
Ex-congressman Judge Phillips is said
to be booked to succeed Sparks.
Gladstone intends to visit the United
States next April.
Miss Josie Holmes, confidential bank
clerk for Harper, of the Fidelity bank,
made false entries by the score.
Ex-senator Jones of Florida is to be sent
to an asylum.
Southern Minnesota and part of Dakota
We're visited by a bowling blizzard on Sat
urday.
Duluth received 975, 600 tons of coal
this vear-a gain of 340,0 900 on the receipts
of 1886.
Littlewood, the Englishman won the
Philadelphia 142 hour race which ended
Saturday. His score was $50 miles, and
he received $4,000 as his share of the re-
ceipts.
Eph Holland, the we'll known Ohio
gambler, is dead. He was known as a
straight man who played in luck both ON
the outside and inside. He was a hacker
in many prize fights.
Prohibition was defeated in Atlanta by
LOO majority. The campaign was red
hot and closely contested from the start.
W. FL. Eustis of Minneapolis wants
Blaine and Sherman on the next republic
can ticket. No chance for Conkling.
"He's dead.' as the colored woman said,
anu you EluSL SSuSG llfl A1S liiut.
Harvard attributes its defeat in the foot
ball game with Yale to the referee and
the umpire.
General Washburne and 10 Others go to
Washington to try to secure the next re-
publican national convention for Mime
apolis.
The rush to southern California contin-
ues, yet it is observed that for the ordin-
airy emigrant, with his fortune to
make and his home to build, and without
large behind him, southern Cal
ifornia today is about the worst possible
destination.
Denver will have a grand jubilee and
musical festival mex June to celebrate
the laying of a cornerstone in the state
capitol. President Diaz and other Next
cans are to be invited.
Mayor Sawyer and ten members of the
Lincoln, Nebraska, city council have been
placed in the county Jail for defying an
injunction.
The Postal automatic telegraph compa-
ny is to be incorporated at Boston, to
build a transcontinental line.